We drive the ultimate incarnation of Aston Martin’s four wheel drive SUV supercar
The Aston Martin DBX707 offers a luxury nexus of dynamics, effortless style and performance © Max Earey
Not many of the glamorous supercars from what some people refer to as the golden age of motoring have remained. You can?t buy a new Jensen, Bizzarrini or De Tomaso now. One brand that somehow managed to overcome many bumps its historical road, and remain proudly independent ? rather than simply a brand extension of a large conglomerate ? is Aston Martin. After teetering on the brink of extinction in the 1980s and 90s, the company is now going through something of a golden era of its own, with the hyper wealthy fighting to get hold of the astonishing Valkyrie hypercar, and the Vantage and DB12 sports cars now appealing to new generations of young, affluent professionals and enthusiasts. Times have changed, though, and every car company, however sporting its origins, needs to have in its portfolio a type of car that would make its own historic racing drivers cringe. The SUV, a type of big, high, spacious and powerful vehicle, is, arguably, more relevant than a sports car for a new generation of newly minted in countries which are nearly acquiring wealth themselves. Often for good reason: a place with a challenging road infrastructure, or conversely with newly laid roads in a straight line grid, it?s not a place to enjoy a low-slung, hard, riding, agile, high-performance sports car origi...